Cleopatra's Suicide a Myth?
Tuesday April 1, 2008
Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley, a lecturer at the University of Manchester in England and museum fellow, who has published books on Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, women in ancient Egypt, and other topics in Egyptology, has just published a new book, Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt, in Europe (coming soon in the U.S.). In this book, she questions the likelihood of the classic scenario where Cleopatra and two servants killed themselves with poisonous snakes, to avoid capture by Octavian. Suicide by poison, maybe? More on this from Discovery News: Cleopatra's Suicide by Snake a Myth?
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didnt they have proof?
The stories that we have of Cleopatra all come from a time when stories were told more for political purposes than as objective history. We only know of Cleopatra’s death through such stories.